As a leader, it’s OK to sound like a broken record on mission

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Had only in passing heard of this guy Bill George before; he’s a former Medtronic CEO, apparently was high-up at Honeywell before that, and now teaches at Harvard Business School. Broadly, then, he’s quite vetted. He has a blog and he speaks/writes/talks a lot about “authentic leadership.” That’s one of those tricky concepts: leaders obviously need to be authentic, but the process of bringing up an idea like “authentic leadership” can lead you into Buzzword Land, and rank-and-file employees tend to tune out Buzzword Land and think it’s all just more BS from on-high.

Here’s a post from George based on an interview he did with Wharton, and here’s a money quote:

Talk about the mission — every day, every minute, every hour — till you sound like a broken record. Travel around the world. Do mission and medallion ceremonies and give people that Medtronic medallion that says, “Our job…

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